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Willis Ratliff 1905 - 1971

Willis Ratliff of Brownwood, Brown County, Texas was born on April 6, 1905, and died at age 66 years old in April 1971.
Willis Ratliff
Brownwood, Brown County, Texas 76801
April 6, 1905
April 1971
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    1905

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    April 6, 1905
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  • 04/dd
    1971

    Death

    April 1971
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    Willis Ratliff lived 5 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 65.
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In 1905, in the year that Willis Ratliff was born, the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.
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In 1924, when he was 19 years old, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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